Biomedical research advocates had hoped that a surge in research and development funding in the 2014 budget would be the best medicine for the National Institutes of Health, which has been impaired by mandated across-the-board sequestration cuts.
Every new medicine, medical technology, or treatment we rely on today ‚ones that we take for granted when we walk into a pharmacy to fill a prescription or to purchase pain relievers‚ stems from one collective source: research.